https://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/balloon_juice_header_logo_grey.jpg00Doug!https://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/balloon_juice_header_logo_grey.jpgDoug!2012-04-07 13:42:042012-04-07 13:42:04He's got this much talent -- this much if he's lucky

A few years ago our local mega-church had a “porn weekend” that used the phrase, “Every time you masturbate God kills a kitten” with no sense of irony. This was covered by our local fish-wrap, also without irony. That same weekend they also published a column by Jonah Goldberg calling for the killing of feral cats. I wrote to the paper suggesting that they were in a position of making a modest proposal.

@eemom:
The great thing about Bobo is, any Tuesday he lets fly a particularly stinky one off, you can count on seeing Kthug tear him to shreds by the weekend. And those are usually my favorites of Krugman’s columns and blog posts. One time Kthug gave Bobo such a sad that Bobo’s next column whined, “Some peoplez iz blowhards, hmph!”

@eemom: In fact, it’s a toofer, Krugman puts the knife into Brooks (the apparatchik) and then proceeds to flay James Stewart (an NYT business section columnist). The business of parading around in Stewart’s pelt at the end is a little over the top– but what the hay.

I can’t agree that there’s anything “solid” about Atrios’ alleged take-down (sic). (“neener neener”? Really?) Atrios wishes to place the blame for J-Load on “journalists,” declaring that he didn’t make the wide-body “the public face of punditry, they did.” That’s horse hockey. Most of us never would have heard of ‘Liberal Fascism’ if it weren’t for progressive bloggers incessantly flogging it (as in “beating up on it”), and news outlets that gave J-Load his fifteen minutes did so because they knew putting the dough-boy in the limelight would get attention. Much of that attention was stirred up by bloggers just like Atrios, who continues to give The Loady One free publicity, even as he decries the state of journalism, a topic that is clearly above his pay grade. Heckuva job, Duncan.

Not for nothing but “Wanker of the Day/Decade” and “Worst Person in the World” are as idiotic as “Moore Awards” et al, but not as well written.